Today, little is written about Marta Toren but she had a fairly profilic Hollywood career. She was born in Stocholm in 1925. She began her career on the stage and then began making films in 1947. In 1949 she was in Hollywood and made “Illegal Entry” with Howard Duff, “Sword in the Desert” with Dana Andrews, “One Way Street” with James Mason, £Deported” with Jeff Chandler and “Sirocco” with Humphrey Bogart. By 1952 she was back in Sweden where she died in 1957 at the age of only 31. A page dedicated to Marta Toren on “Glamour Gils of the Silver Screen” can be accessed here.
IMDB Entry:
From an early age her dream was to become an actress. Her first application for acting studies at The Royal Dramatic Theater in 1944 was unsuccessful. After additional dramatic coaching she was finally accepted in 1947. But screenwriter Edwin Blumarranged a screen test for RKO which eventually led to her being offered a contract with Universal Studios. It was a hard choice but she accepted and left her studies after one semester. In Hollywood she quickly made 10 movies, including Sirocco (1951) withHumphrey Bogart. From 1952 she accepted movie offers from Italy with more demanding roles. She married director Leonardo Bercovici on June 13, 1952, and gave birth to a daughter. In early 1957, she went back to Sweden for her stage debut in a play by J.B. Priestley. She died one month later, at the age of 31, of a brain hemorrhage.
– IMDb Mini Biography By: Mattias Thuresson
